The Ocean's Eleven director eventually sold his project to pay TV network HBO in the US, making it ineligible for film's most high-profile awards ceremony.
Fifa sold hospitality rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups for $240m and has a $300m deal in place with Match Hospitality and Match Services for the next two tournaments as well.
In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies were high on activists' hit lists, prompted by Big Pharma's ill-advised attempt to sue the South African government for patent infringement on HIV drugs; an attempt to deal with the country's epidemic by allowing cheaper, generic copies to be sold.
But how much of the price of every cup of coffee sold is paid to coffee-producing nations?
Four couples won a total of $3.165m on Wednesday night's show after the four apartments they had renovated and furnished during the series sold in a thriving Melbourne property market.
Fans gathered two hours before kick-off to welcome the team bus, 55,000 tickets had been sold and the noise was deafening.
They traffic in human beings, often, as I heard for myself a few weeks back, young girls sold into prostitution; they deal in drugs, with levels of violence unimaginable in the past.
"And perhaps most importantly, he has bragging rights in the Blair household – Cherie's Speaking for Myself sold 3,877 in its first week," he added.
Blair's A Journey sold 92,060 copies in its first four days on sale last week, according to Nielsen BookScan – the best ever opening week sale for an autobiography since the book sales monitor's records began, in 1998, and well ahead of Mandelson's The Third Man's performance, which sold 14,960 copies in three days when it was published in July.
But because you came down Monday and we'd sold out, you can?' "I did manage to get him one.
A fourth man has died from what police fear is a potentially fatal batch of ecstasy being sold on British streets.
